Human monoclonal IgG antibodies derived from a patient allergic to birch pollen as tools to study the in situ localization of the major birch pollen allergen, Bet v 1, by immunogold electron microscopy

Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 60-66

  Grote, Monika ^a   Wiedemann, Petra ^b   Lebecque, Serge ^c   Valenta, Rudolf ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Bet v 1; Human monoclonal antibodies; Immunogold electron microscopy; Localization; P loop motif; Protein sequence analysis; Tree pollen allergy

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ALLERGY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CROSS REACTION; HAY FEVER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOGOLD STAINING; POLLEN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 0031891743     PISSN: 00916749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0091-6749(98)70194-0     Document Type: Article

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